Dreaming of Jupiter by Ted Simon
65.00 NZD
Category: Travel Writing
Ted Simon is the author of the classic travel book Jupiter's Travels. It documents his four-year journey round the world by motorbike, travelling through Europe, Africa, South and North America, and Asia. A number one bestseller in the late 1970s, it is still regarded as one of the greatest motorcycle b ...Show more
Springtime for Germany - Or How I Learned to Love Lederhosen by Ben Donald
36.99 NZD
39.99 (7% off)
Category: Travel Writing
With no apparent sense of humour and their excessive speed when securing sunloungers, the German people and their country have had a terrible reputation among the British since time immemorial (or 1914). So, going where very few travel-writers and holidaymakers have gone before, Ben Donald has visit ...Show more
Long Way Round by Ewan McGregor
47.50 NZD
Category: Travel Writing
In this highly entertaining and fast-paced travel book, fellow film actors and bike enthusiasts Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman travel 20,000 miles around the world by motorbike, setting each other challenges on the way, from learning Kung Fu in China, to flying a MiG jet in Russia. They also take int ...Show more
Kevin McCloud's Grand Tour of Europe by Kevin McCloud
77.00 NZD
Category: Travel Writing
Loosely following in the footsteps of the most notorious grand tourists Kevin clambers in, on and amongst the greatest buildings, ruins and cities in Europe and also veers drastically off the official path to visit the brothels, bathhouses and drinking dens which formed the other half of the grand touri ...Show more
Around the World in Eighty Days by Michael Palin
65.00 NZD
Category: Travel Writing
In the autumn of 1988 Michael Palin set out from the Reform Club to circumnavigate the world, following the route taken by Phileas Fogg 115 years earlier. But if the rules were simple, nothing else was. Palin's Passepartout was not a loyal French manservant, but a five-person BBC film crew, there to rec ...Show more
The Olive Tree: A Personal Journey Through Mediterranean Olive Groves by Carol Drinkwater
39.99 NZD
Category: Travel Writing
THE OLIVE TREE charts Carol Drinkwater's colourful and often dangerous journey in search of the routes that olive cultivation has taken over the centuries. Set during a springtime Mediterranean that is evocative and perennial, it is above all a tale of our time. Troubled by challenges her own South of ...Show more
The Olive Route : A personal journey to the heart of the Mediterranean - out of print by Carol Drinkwater
36.99 NZD
39.99 (7% off)
Category: Travel Writing
The Olive Route resembles both the Silk Road and the Spice Route in that the epic adventures involving the transportation of its produce are highly colourful, intriguing and sometimes bloodthirsty. They embody the entire history of the Mediterranean and its diverse peoples. From the Levant on the easter ...Show more
Heart of the World by Ian A. Baker
39.99 NZD
Category: Travel Writing
This is the most captivating story of exploration of recent memory,an extraordinary journey into one of the most inaccessible placws on earth,a meditation on our place in nature and a pilgramage into the Tibetan Buddhist Faith. The author travels into Tsangpo Gorge,the world's deepest and most impen ...Show more
Heart of the World by Ian Baker
59.99 NZD
62.50 (4% off)
Category: Travel Writing
A pilgrimage, as much as an exploration, this is a brilliant, magically written account of a journey that is physical and spiritual. This is already a cult book with many potential mass markets - MBS, literary, religious, travel writing at its finest. Ian Baker's original discovery of the waterfall made ...Show more
Sunrise with Seamonsters: Travels and Discoveries 1964-1984 by Paul Theroux
32.00 NZD
Category: Travel Writing
Award winning Paul Theroux has written many iconic shorter pieces of travel writing which have been collected together in the captivating "Sunrise with Seamonsters". "Sunrise with Seamonsters" is Paul Theroux's immensely entertaining collection of his shorter writings, ranging from sketches to critical ...Show more
The Tao of Travel by Paul Theroux
47.00 NZD
Category: Travel Writing | Reading Level: good
Paul Theroux celebrates fifty years of wandering the globe by collecting the best writing on travel from the books that shaped him, as a reader and a traveller. Part philosophical guide, part miscellany, part reminiscence, "The Tao of Travel" enumerates 'The Contents of Some Travellers' Bags' and expose ...Show more
Ghost Train to the Eastern Star : On the tracks of The Great Railway Bazaar by Paul Theroux
37.00 NZD
Category: Travel Writing | Reading Level: very good
In Ghost Train to the Eastern Star, Paul Theroux retraces the steps he took thirty years ago in the best-selling and hugely acclaimed The Great Railway Bazaar. From the Eurostar in London, he once again sets out on a journey to the East, travelling overland through Eastern Europe, India and Asia. Infuse ...Show more